There is no ‘business as usual’ under apartheid and genocide.
Source: Palestinian BDS Movement
The Apartheid Free Zone (AFZ) campaign, as part of the Palestinian BDS movement, seeks to foster the creation of progressive, intersectional spaces across the world, that are free of Israel’s genocide, apartheid and settler colonialism, and which bring together multiple struggles for justice and equality.
An organisation, union or local business that wants to become an Apartheid Free Zone commits to refrain from providing any kind of support to Israel’s regime of oppression. This objective can be achieved through a number of measures, depending on your local socio-political context.
Take a look at the Palestinian BDS AFZ Organizing Guide and Toolkit and learn more about this campaign, and how to foster new AFZ in your city, council area or other community spaces!
WHY?
Over the last two decades, people of conscience and grassroots organisations around the world have built BDS campaigns to end complicity with apartheid Israel. As Israel’s genocide against Palestinians rages on, these struggles have shown the importance of creating sustainable spaces to nurture the movement and build concrete solidarity for the Palestinian people.
As people of conscience, we want to ensure that the spaces in which we participate do not contribute to the maintenance of a genocidal apartheid regime, do not benefit from grave human rights violations, or become influenced or shaped by any of the former. Israel’s genocidal war against the 2.3 million Palestinians in the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip has increased the importance of expanding AFZs: there is no business as usual under apartheid and genocide.
BUILDING AFZs IS A WORK-IN-PROGRESS
LET’S BUILD A NETWORK OF APARTHEID FREE ZONES ACROSS VICTORIA
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